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Introduction
The Roaring 20's was a time when Americans wanted to __leave the nightmare of World War I behind them__. __American Presidents__ wanted to become Isolationists again. The American people wanted to enjoy an __economic Boom__, and spend their money on all the new products that were available.

Vocabulary
"Return to Normalcy" Kellogg-Briand Pact Installment Buying

**Assignment **



 * Presidents of the 1920's **

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Republican From Ohio

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Warren G. Harding is best known for his slogan promising a **"return to normalcy"** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">for the American people. He wanted to get back to normal, the way things were before <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">the Progressives and World War I. To him, and to most Americans, normal meant <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Isolationism and more laissez-faire Capitalism. He won the 1920 election by a landslide <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Biography of Warren G. Harding] Learn more about Harding's background and personality in this short video.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">During his Presidency, the United States continued to stay out of the League of Nations. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">He raised the tariff <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">to protect American business from foreign competition. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Harding, however, is often ranked as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">A group of historians and politicians ranked him 38th in a C-SPAN survey (see the <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">whole list <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|here] ). That's because his presidency was rocked by corruption and scandals, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">caused mostly by Harding's own friends. His group of friends became known as the Ohio <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Gang, because he brought most of them to Washington with him from Ohio. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">The worst <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">scandal was known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. The scandal involved Harding's <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, and some secret deals that he made to make a <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">profit off of oil discovered in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Harding died suddenly of a heart <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">attack in August, 1923 while in San Francisco. He was president less than two years.

Works Cited C-SPAN Historians Presidential Leadership Survey. C-SPAN.org. [] Hamilton, Neil A. "Harding, Warren G." //Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary//. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2001. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. []? ItemID=WE52&iPin=PRE029&SingleRecord=True //Teapot Dome Scandal//. Spartacus Encyclopedia. [] Venezia, Mike. //Warren G. Harding: Twenty-Ninth President//. Scholastic Library Publictions, New York. 2007

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Republican <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">From Vermont

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Calvin Coolidge was a quiet, intelligent man. He was nicknamed "Silent Cal". A woman once bet President <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Coolidge that she could get the President to say more than two words. President Coolidge responded, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"You lose".

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> President Coolidge wanted to clean up the scandals of the Harding presidency. While Harding had a <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">reputation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">as someone who liked to have fun, Coolidge was very dignified. He wanted to reestablish <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">America's trust in the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">President. This cartoon shows <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">Coolidge scrubbing off the Republican party, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">symbolized by an elephant. Like Harding, Coolidge wanted a return to normalcy, and he continued <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">many of Harding's policies. Coolidge's motto was "the business of America is business". He believed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">that less government interference in the economy (laissez-faire capitalism) was a good thing. He reduced <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">regulations on businesses, kept the tariff high and lowered taxes. He did not approve of a government <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">plan to support farmers. Watch the video to see how the economy - manufacturing, labor and the stock <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">market - all boomed during the 1920's. Coolidge differed from Harding in foreign policy. While Coolidge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">was basically an Isolationist, he was also very interested in world peace. During his presidency, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the Kellogg-Briand Pact was made by the United States and France and eventually signed by more than <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">60 countries. The Kellogg-Briand Pact stated that war was illegal and banned from the world. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|here] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> to see the original treaty and who signed it. Coolidge wanted the United States <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to be part of the League of Nations' Court of International Justice, but the U.S. Sentate rejected his idea.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Works Cited <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Greenberg, David. //Calvin Coolidge//. TImes Books, New York, 2006. Hamilton, Neil A. "Coolidge, Calvin." //Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary//. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2001. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. []? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">ItemID=WE52&iPin=PRE030&SingleRecord=True Karol, John. "//Ding" Darling//. Persistance Plus Productions. [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Peace Through Strength. //President Coolidge, First Presidential Film (1924).// YouTube, 2007.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 192%;">THE ECONOMIC BOOM

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Roaring 20's was a time of great prosperity in the United States. Many new inventions caused industry <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">to grow. The United States had been undamaged by World War I. All their natural resources, factories and <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">transportation systems were still in good shape. The United States was able to see a lot of goods to Europe, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">which had been badly damaged by the War. New industry and high profits meant lots of jobs, and good <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">salaries for workers. Wealth was everyhere! The number of Americans millionaires increased by 400% <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">during the Roaring 20''s. Click [|here] to see statistics on the economic boom of the 1920's. There were many <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">new products that everyone wanted. Retailers introduced a new credit system so that everyone could get anything they wanted. It was called the **installment buying** system. A consumer could pay for a product in installments over time, for example, one payment per week until the product is totally paid for. By the end <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">of the 1920's, Americans used installment buying to buy 90% of the things they wanted. People may have <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">been living with more luxuries, but their debt increased. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Another new industry in the 1920's was the advertising industry. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Advertisements were everywhere - on the radio, in magazines and on roadside billboards. Like today's ads, adverstisements of <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">the 1920's showed happy, attractive people using products and encouraging consumers to buy those products. Brand names like <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Maytag and Chevrolet became familiar to all Americans. You can see many ads from the 1920's by clicking <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|here]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Listen to a radio advertisement for Campbell's Tomato Soup from the 1920's.

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 96%;">Works Cited <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 96%;">Harnisch, Larry. The 1947 Project. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lmharnisch.com/images/1907_0525.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.1947project.com/] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|node%3Fpage%3D50&usg=__Q8bPbL-6foxsHXb2LLjpcjEKviA=&h=578&w=193&sz=48&hl=en&start=18&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=p8AR4XM26oYukM:&tbnh=134&tbnw] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|=45&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dinstallment%2Bplan%2B1920%2527s%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Dactive%26tbs%3Disch:1] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 96%;">Schulzz, Kevin M. //HIST//. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Boston, 2010 Streissguth, Tom. "Prosperity: 1928." //The Roaring Twenties//, Eyewitness History, Revised Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=EHRTEssay12&SingleRecord=True //Vintage Commercials//. Old Radio World. []